{"product_id":"life-story-from-cells-to-civilisations-and-beyond","title":"Life Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat if life on Earth evolved not once - but twice?\u003cbr\u003e And what if we're now facing a third phase of evolution?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Life on Earth has evolved not once, but twice. First as organic life - from single cells to the astonishing diversity of the natural world. Then as human culture - from hunter-gatherers to cities, empires and global civilisations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this sweeping and original work, Jonathan Loh reveals a radical idea: culture as a form of life. Unfolding across deep time - from the earliest organisms to the rise of Homo sapiens, from foragers to farmers, from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution - it uncovers the hidden patterns linking genetics and language, organisms and states, ecosystems and economies, mass extinctions and civilisational collapse.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e One species has come to dominate the Earth. Yet as machine intelligence gathers pace, Loh asks whether that supremacy is only a phase in life's longer story.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Life Story : From Cells to Civilisations and Beyond","offer_id":50616800084165,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-911717-19-5.jpg?v=1791004599","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/life-story-from-cells-to-civilisations-and-beyond","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}